Humanizing Hospitals Through Healing Photo Art
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Placing Healing Art Where It’s Needed Most
Nature images can help heal the soul, which in turn helps heal the body.
White, cold, sterile walls exemplify the traditional hospital setting, where stress, pain, fear and loneliness abound. Staring at these empty walls is boring and depressing. The mood changes when our beautiful nature photos are placed on the walls, providing color, comfort, and hope to patients, caregivers, and loved ones.
The Foundation for Photo/Art in Hospitals was established in the USA in 2002 by photographer Elaine Poggi, who turned her personal tragedy of the loss of her mother into a worldwide campaign to bring photos of nature to hospitals.
Offering an extensive portfolio of nature photos ranging from tropical beaches to Japanese cherry blossoms to the Tuscan hills, donated by Elaine and other photographers from all corners of the world, the nonprofit Foundation seeks funding to cover printing, framing, and shipping expenses so that the cost to hospitals is minimal or none at all.
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Mia Marcillac, Contributing Photographer
Mia Marcillac, Careyes, Mexico (P645)
Many thanks to Mia Marcillac, our new Contributing Photographer, for her colorful photo!
Mia comments, “Hi! My name is Mia Marcillac and I am so honored to have contributed a photo to Healing Photo Art. It has been such an incredible experience volunteering for this organization and seeing how these photographs can really make an impact on not only the patients but the staff as well. It is so amazing that a photo of mine can be presented in a hospital and hopefully have a positive impact on its environment. As I continue to travel I hope to take more beautiful photos that can be contributed to this organization. As I am studying abroad in Florence, it is so special to be able to give back to this community and continue this philanthropic work. Elaine has been so kind to myself and the other volunteers and being able to contribute a photo to this organization makes my time studying in Florence so much sweeter.”
Elaine Poggi, Contributing Photographer
Elaine Poggi, Alpe Di Siusi, Italy (M232)
A beautiful view from the top of the Alpe di Siusi in Val Gardena, taken by Elaine Poggi!
